humblepie

humble pie n.

A pie formerly made from the edible organs of a deer or hog.

Idiom: eat humble pie

To be forced to apologize abjectly or admit one's faults in humiliating circumstances.

  [Alteration (influenced by humble), of obsolete umble pie Middle English umbles, edible animal organs (variant of numbles, from Norman French nombles, from Old French, loin of veal, probably from alteration of Latin lumbulus, diminutive of lumbus, loin) + pie¹.]

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